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ELECTIONS 2012 - Open |
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Elections for the IACR Executive Board President and representatives for Africa,
Asia, North America and Europe are now open. Voting members are invited to
cast their votes.
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The NOMINEES are: President: Maria Paula Curado, Goiania Cancer Registry, Brazil Dr Roberto Zanetti , Piedmont Cancer Registry, Torino Regional Representatives: Europe: Prof Alexander Katalinic, Institute for Cancer Epidemiology, University of Lübeck, Germany Dr Eero Pukkala, Finnish Cancer Registry, Finland Africa: Ms Anne Korir, Kenya Medical Research Institute,Nairobi, Kenya Ms Nontuthuzelo Somdyala, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa North America(*): Dr Maria Schymura, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA Asia: Dr Wan-Qing Chen, National Central Cancer Registry, Beijing, China Dr Hideo Tanaka, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Aichi, Japan Voting will be conducted electronically, via the Registries Portal. The voters will need their registry username and password to connect to the portal and open the Election tab. [Registries who have submitted data will have already received a login to access the portal]. Detailed instructions are available on the portal. Should you not have a login, you should contact the IACR secretariat (iacr@iarc.fr). There will be only one vote per registry. Therefore, the invitation to participate in the elections is addressed to the registries directors (or equivalent) only. The votes are cast anonymously. The registries having voted will be listed, but the link to the candidate they voted for will not be known. All voting members may vote for the President while only members within the respective regions can vote for their regional representatives. The latest date to vote on is Saturday 16 June 2012. All votes received after this date will be invalid. Registries may vote as of today, 16 April 2012. The ballots will be counted after the official deadline date. The results will be published on the IACR website when the winning candidates have accepted the positions. (*) Dr K Ward has withdrawn his candidature |
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Election Regional Representative for Oceania A Nominating Committee consisting of Drs Roberto Zanetti (chair, Italy), Ankarath Nandakumar (India) and Maria Shymura (USA) received confirmation of one candidate for the vacant position: Ms Helen Farrugia (Australia). Voting members from the Oceania region had the opportunity to propose other nominations by 5 August 2011. The Secretariat can confirm that as at 5 August 2011 there were no further nominations. Dr Edwards (President)has agreed that, as the only nominated candidate, Ms Helen Farrugia would be duly elected as Regional Representative (Oceania). Her term of office is for the remainder of a four-year term, starting from 11 October 2010, as agreed at the 2010 Executive Board Meeting in Yokohama. Updated on 16 august 2011
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